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ALT key locks my computer or sometimes shuts it down!

Computer Switches to IDE Drive at Random - Shuts Down ComputerI've run into an odd problem, that I've been experiencing the past two weeks. At random my computer will freeze up, the monitor will turn off and the computer beeps. The motherboard fires back an error code: 75 Detect HDD IDE device detection. My Windows boots...

Hardware & Devices

Computer display shuts off/computer shuts down. During video tasks.Whenever I play a movie or a game, after about 20 mins or so the display stops working. On some occasions the computer will just shut off. I have ran a AIDA64 benchmark test on my machine with all hardware devices and the system performs well. (Test ran for 5 hours +) I also checked my cpu...

Hardware & Devices

Screen Shuts off and computer locks up whenever I Launch a GameAlright I was playing through the walking dead game fine no problems then I had to go eat dinner so I paused the game (hit the esc key) and my monitor shut off and said no signal whenever I turned it back on. My mouse and keyboard also started shutting off and on and nothing I pressed (alt+F4, ...

BSOD Help and Support

computer locks when not usedhi how do i stop my computer locking when its left not used, i want to leave my computer running wile im doing something and when i leave it it locks after a wile and then i lose what im doing because its locked i just want it to stay on when i just move the mouse and it comes on the screen that im...

General Discussion

Computer locks upWhen I start my computer everything starts as normal, then after 5 minutes or so it locks up. The unusual thing is that I can run in safe mode without issue until any program or I try to access one particular folder which happens to be a specific music folder. If I run McAfee, Malwarebytes or AVG...

BSOD Help and Support

Hibernate Simply locks computer and shuts off MonitorI have had this HP dv 2045dx with windows 7 premium home edition for a little less than a year now and since I've had I have not been able to hibernate.
I have gone through every tutorial about typing in the correct command to enable hibernation and after I did all of this hiberfil.sys exists...